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I am so used to browsing through menus with my mouse to learn a program - that's the barrier for VIM methinks. for VIM cheatsheets and print one out. I mean, I need a cheatsheet just to navigate the help system.

Once you've learnt the commands for the things you do frequently, you'll like it. But because I don't use it often (usually when I'm debugging apache or something and I just want to be over and done with it), I never learn anything new (because I can't be bothered remembering how to access the help system).

In contrast, with "windows/menu" type programs I tend to learn new features without trying...

Sausage HotDog for all coding. I know at least one other person on this forum uses it. It may be a dinosaur, but I like that it allows you to hand code and instantly preview, plus it has nice features like context highlight, custom tag creation, macros, native ftp, multi-browser preview, multi-file find/replace, and more.

I used to use Dreamweaver, but PHP Designer seems to use up less resources and it does practically the same thing (and it's free :P). The only problem with PHP Designer is that the built-in FTP client can't go into PASV mode .

Sweet, I've been avoiding upgrading to DW8, but it does handy stuff like highlight stuff between opening and closing braces and the you can collapse it so that stuff is only visible in a popup box. I freaking love it man!! All hail DW (code view, for whatever reason design view has always been screwy! Don't really care for WYSIWYG, creates really sloppy code)

Tried a lot of editors, must say I love Crimson Editor the most. Have been using it for years. My only complaint is that they haven't released a new version in a while and I could really use a "Save a Copy" I like simplicity, and Crimson Editor has a nice interface. 'Tis the same reason I use Filezilla over other FTP software.

Sausage HotDog for all coding. I know at least one other person on this forum uses it. It may be a dinosaur, but I like that it allows you to hand code and instantly preview, plus it has nice features like context highlight, custom tag creation, macros, native ftp, multi-browser preview, multi-file find/replace, and more.

God I remember this......lol
it was the first html editor I used to code with, got a free HotDog Pro 5.5 with a computer magazine [back it the days], use to love working with it. But then i came accross Dreamweaver....... its the usual ending after that....

Never got into coding with HotDog. Been a MAc OS/X convert for over a year. But, back in the day on the PC side I used dreamweaver for my HTML work and used UltraEdit32 -- and UE still kicks ****. Since then, I moved to the Mac side and got Textwrangler (free)...but Since improvments included in DW MX 2004, which I run now, I typically do my php coding with it, good syntax markup too. I still run TextWrangler, typically when I need to load up a CSV file, or hex edit something, it comes in handy. But, I'm finding myself doing all my html work with DW MX 2004, including all my PHP coding. A weird transition at first, but after a long while got a good knack for it and it does everything I need.

It would be nice if DW, while in HTML mode or something would show you the PHP output in real time while editing, that would be really nice.

Never got into coding with HotDog. Been a MAc OS/X convert for over a year. But, back in the day on the PC side I used dreamweaver for my HTML work and used UltraEdit32 -- and UE still kicks ****. Since then, I moved to the Mac side and got Textwrangler (free)...but Since improvments included in DW MX 2004, which I run now, I typically do my php coding with it, good syntax markup too. I still run TextWrangler, typically when I need to load up a CSV file, or hex edit something, it comes in handy. But, I'm finding myself doing all my html work with DW MX 2004, including all my PHP coding. A weird transition at first, but after a long while got a good knack for it and it does everything I need.

It would be nice if DW, while in HTML mode or something would show you the PHP output in real time while editing, that would be really nice.

try TruStudio Foundation for the mac. i mostly use PC, but when i'm on a mac i've found this to be the best free IDE, and the best use of Java for a mac.